Padding-bandage



DEL ROY F. FOWLER.

PADDING BANDAGE.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 4. 1918.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEL ROY F. FOWLER, OF MELROSE PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK P. WOLL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PADDING-BANDAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed 0ctober'4, 1918. Serial No. 256,927.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEL ROY F. FOWLER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Melrose Park, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Padding-Bandages, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

My invention relates to the makeup of padding bandages especially intended and adapted for use in Wrapping splints used for surgical operation and for wrapping dressed members.

Heretofore unabsorbent cotton batting or bats of other fibrous materials have been used for such purposes, but they have proved unsatisfactory in use because such bats have but little permanency in form and little tensile strength, and, therefore, involve some difiiculty in proper application and are not adapted for reuse. The object of my 1n- 'vention is to provide a fibrous batting suitable for such uses as I have indicated, which will have greater permanence and rigidity of formand greater tensile strength, and hence can be better applied in use and be also capable of reuse.

The nature of my invention will be best understood as described in connection with the drawings in which it is illustrated and in which- Figure 1 is a cross sectional view of the central core of my padding bandage.

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the non-absorbent fibrous battin used in the construction of my padding andage.

Fig. 3 is a cross section through the complete padding bandage, and

Fig. 4 a longitudinal section on the line -14 of Fig. 3.

A is the core of the padding bandage and is made up preferably of a long and relatively narrow sheet of paper, thin enough to be readil flexible and stiff enough to afford a bracing and stiffening element to the bandage as a whole. I prefer to use paper as the material for this core not only because it would be quite flexible longitudinally and sufliciently stifi laterally, but also because of its good qualities as a non conductor of heat, but other material such as a fairly stiff woven fabric can be used in place of it. B is the batting made up of nonabsorbent fibrous material, preferably cotton, and formed with a central portion B of uniform thickness and tapered edges B and B In making up my padding bandage the batting is folded around the core A, as shown in Fig. 3, the tapered ends of the batting being folded down upon the paper and upon each other, so I that the thickness of the fibrous material on both sides of the core will be approximately-uniform. C indicates the padding bandage.

It will be obvious that my paddingbandage, constructed as above described, will be entirely flexible in a longitudinal direction, reasonably stifi' laterally, and that it can be readily applied as a wrapping for splints or other dressed members and that it has sufficient permanency of construction to enable it to be reused.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A padding bandage consisting of a long, narrow strip formed of a central core of relatively stiff and strong material in combination with and inclosed by an outer surface made up of an unabsorbent fibrous bat having tapered edges folded about the core and with its tapered edges lapped on one side of the core.

2. A padding bandage consisting of a long, narrow strip formed of a central core of relatively stiff and strong paper in combination with and inclosed by an outer surface made up of an unabsorbent fibrous bat having tapered edges folded about the core and with its tapered edges lapped on one side of the paper core.

DEL ROY F. FOWLER. 

